October 13, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Auto Light, Idia Coleman into Night's presentation of.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Suspense to light.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Auto Life brings to life one of the most famous
detectives in literature, as we dramatize E. C. Bentley's classic
novel of deduction, Trent's Last Case, Our Star.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Mister Ronald Coleman.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Please? No?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
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Speaker 5 (02:01):
On the last case to which I, Philip Trent, applied
myself in the field of criminology and detection, occurred in
the spring of nineteen hundred and ten. I has acknowledged
that the intricacies of the crime were worthy of the
brain of Siggsby Manderson. This colossus among financial giants had
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manipulated power and wealth in every corner of the world.
He centralized industries of continental scope, smashed families and fortunes,
and along with each dollar he accumulated an enemy. When
Sigsby Manderson was murdered, the world lust nothing worth a
single tear the day of his death, Sir James Molloy,
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publisher of a London Record, asked me to cover the
case for his paper. I agreed and immediately took the
train to Bishopsbridge.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Ah, then you'll have friends.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Wait for an old man.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Why, mister Couples, by all this miraculars, how are you breathless?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Philip?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Breathless?
Speaker 8 (03:14):
They I expected you be down to Bishop's Bridge to
write about the murder.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Well, that's rather a colorless way of stating it, eh,
I should prefer to put it that I have come
down and the character of avenger of blood to hunt
down the guilty and vindicate the honor of society. Families
waited one of their private residences.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
Famous turned your head. This tragic affair will not blend
well with your lightheartedness.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Ah now, mister Couples, you have more than a bystander's
interest in the case. I have indeed come now you
you didn't.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Do the great man in Mabel Manderson is my niece,
and there are some things you will learn which may
prejudice you, and I wanted you to share them from
me so your good judgment would not be impaired by
gossip or malicious tongues.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Good. So you can walk to the Manderson place with me?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh, much too far to walk. I'll take you in
my motor car.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Oh no, Now you will go slowly, won't you?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Very slowly, you get in.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
I'll crank the engine.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Now, how about your niece?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
My niece had been married to Manderson.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
For five years. They got along all the world.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
Despite the difference in their ages. She was just eighteen
when they married, and he close to fiftieth. Several months ago,
for an all apparent.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Reason, he began to treat her miserably.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
He was surly, contemptuous, and sullen. Once she could bear
it no longer, she turned to me.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I offered to speak.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
To him, demand an explanation for his aunt rage.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Why didn't she speak to him herself?
Speaker 8 (05:02):
There is the most gentle and even tempered person. She
wanted to avoid a bitter.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Squabble, A rare woman. Indeed, I tried to see Manderson
for a week.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
When I finally did catch up with him, I was
doubly angry for his shabby treatment of his.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Wife and for avoiding me.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
And did you get in this satisfaction? Who?
Speaker 8 (05:19):
He refused to discuss the matter in the presence of witnesses.
I'm afraid I made a rather rash statement. I expressed
the view that men such.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
As he did not deserve to live. I wouldn't worry
about that, mister, Couples. That opinion seems to be universal.
The strange thing is why your niece married Manderson. Oh yeah,
here we are.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Would you mind opening the gates please?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
No, no, no, this will refine. I'd like to nose
around the grounds a bit, unless you want to drive in.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
No, no, no no, I'm staying in town. If you
should want me, I'm at the Hotel Royal h.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Thank you for the lift, Couples. I passed through the
gates and walked the path between tall walls of hedges.
A gap in this green wall took me to a
gravel track that led to the small gardener's cottage. Someone
was poking about, as though looking for something. My approach
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startled the fellow. This is private property. What are you
doing here? My name is Trent and you John Marlow, Oh, yes,
secretary to mister Manderson. I believe you'll. You seem to
have lost something, flus. I can help you.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Look.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
No, I I was just hoping I could find something here,
something that the murderer may have dropped. This is where
Manderson's body was found.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Ah, and have you found anything? No, I really.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Didn't expect to.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I I've just.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Been so sorry, upset, bereaved, devastated by the master's death. Frankly, no,
I'm limpets all. I've been up all night driving, haven't
had any sleep.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
For you? You should you should do your driving during
the day.
Speaker 9 (07:05):
Mister Manderson had sent me on an urge in errand
to Southampton just before he was killed.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Oh, then you went around when the deed was done.
Speaker 9 (07:12):
I have accounted for myself to inspect a merch.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
But now that your employment here has come to an
abrupt end, do you plan on leaving Bishop's Bridge?
Speaker 9 (07:21):
And Missus Manderson has asked me to stay to clear
up various papers and loose ends more. Well, then I
shall see you about you shall mister Trent. I would
like to offer a suggestion snoop around if you must,
but leave Missus Manderson alone.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I have already heard that she is the most fragile creature.
But have no worries mister Marlowe. I am gentle as
a bird. When Marlowe left me, I pattered about the
uncut grass, which still showed where the body had lain.
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And I started towards these there was a man standing
in the open French doors of the study.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
White Trent come in, Come in.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Ah me twas ever that I did think for once
I was ahead of Scotland Yard. And now here again
is the largest officer in the entire force already filling
that prime position.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
How are you merch earning my wages? Trent A.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Then you've arrested the bloke, but done the old fellow
in good work?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You know I didn't say that it'll take more than
you or me to put the cuffs on anyone in
this case?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Or come now, what about the butler and the upstairs,
made the cook, the gardener? Why the place must be
teeming with likely super.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The trouble Mendersen was not what I'd call a lovable chip.
Too many suspects were some bloke Groove come here from
Tanganyikol Timberg too, pulled the trigger and then gone home,
easy if you please.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
The gun hasn't been found.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
No, I have the bullet here, the thirty two.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Such a small bullet to have ruined such a large brain.
Any powder burn nun.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The gun was fired from a distance of about five feet.
The medical examiner has fixed the time of death at
about midnight. Where's the body? A Deckerman's mortually in towns.
I have a photographer here taken where the body was found.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Let me see m distress cops i've ever seen except
for the shoes.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
The shoes, while they're very expensive.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
And practically new, I should like to see them if
they're about.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Everything mister Manderson was wearing when he was killed has
been returned to his room.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I suppose to be all right if I went up
and sniffed around.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Of course, I'll lead the way I've gone over everything funnily,
I don't know why you're so interested in the shoes match.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Don't you think it rather strange that Manderson was dressed
meticulously when he was shut, hair parted neatly, tie in place,
waistecot completely buttoned. Yet the laces of the shoes but untied.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Or perhaps his feet bothered him. Now I have terrible pain.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Could robbery have come into it? You think anything missing
from Manderson's pockets or from the house.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh at refector. Manderson's wallet was overstuffed with about five thousand.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Pounds, more than pocket money even for a millionaire.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
There was also a pouch of valuable uncut diamonds in
one of his pockets. No robbery is certainly out. Ah,
this is.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Mendersson's room here and cut diamonds there as anyone guessed
at their value about.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Ten thousand pounds, Well, good heavens, don't you think diamonds
are worth that much?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Is that? I'm more impressed by the array of shoes
in this wardrobe. Why they there must be fifty pairs
if there's one, Aha, this is what I want?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Oh, how could you tell that those are the shoe
whose Mendersson war last night?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Will look here, there's a tear near the tank wheth.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I said, they must have been a bit tight for him.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Now why would he, with fifty pairs to choose from,
select the one pair that pinched? You know how it is.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I've become attached to an old bathroobe much too tight
for me that I favorite over a new one that
the wife gave me on my birthday.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
God, very odd match. I wondered if we could have
a look at Marlowe's room.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Now, certainly it's just down the hall, but her Marlowe's
in the clear. He left eleven last night, an hour
before Menderson was killed. He got to the Bedford Hotel
in Southampton at six thirty. Couldn't possibly have made the
drive in less than seven and a half hours.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
What was the errand Manderson sent him on?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
He was to meet mister Harris and give him a package,
some big secret business affair of Mendersin's.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
I met to and Marlowe delivered the package and returned
to Bishop's Bridge.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
He returned without making the delivery. Harris didn't appear.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
You might at least not before including Oh, I'm sorry, Marlowe.
I thought the room was unoccupied.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Fence, mister Marlowe, Trent here is working on the case.
You might call this visit of visual please business. I've
told you all I can.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
You don't mind. I'd like to nap at Marlow. When
you first went to work for Manerson, did he require
a graduate of Oxford? All he wanted was a capable secretary.
But you were at Oxford. I was marvelous placed. Oxford
gave us a great school and a fine style of shoe.
By the way, at Marlow, what size shoe do you wear? Inspector.
Speaker 9 (12:33):
If you don't remove this, gentleman, I shall report this
to the authority.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Oh, come off it, mister Marlowe. Let's indulge mister trenton
a question or two.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
I wear size ten scene.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Thank you, Thank you at marlow Have you any idea
what was in that package for mister Harris?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
No?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Where is it now?
Speaker 9 (12:53):
A messenger came for it this morning.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
You have any idea who this mister Harris may be?
Have you ever met him?
Speaker 8 (12:59):
No?
Speaker 9 (13:00):
Mister Madison had many private business arrangements about which I
was kept in the dark. I was his secretary, not
a business partner.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Isn't it rather odd that an American would hire an
English secretary? Not at all?
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Maybe missus Manderson is English. That is why mister Madison
lived in England a good part of the time. He
wanted his wife to feel at home among her own people.
And I assume you did your part in that regard.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
I beg your pardoner, I beg yours. Marlowe. Well, take
your nap and pleasant dreams. Inspector Merch went off to
complete arrangements for the inquest, leaving me alone in this
marble mausoleum of the house. To wait for Missus Manderson.
I then sent a telegram to Oxford University and requested
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an immediate reply to my inquiries about John Marler's undergraduate activities.
Then I wrote my first dispatch for the London Record,
setting forth everything I knew, and keeping to myself those
suspicions which I hope would soon be confirmed. Since Missus
Manderson didn't appear, I decided to have another look at
the gardener's cottage, but a compelling thought turned me instead
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towards the sound of the sea. Standing at the edge
of the cliff, I watched the beautiful movements of water,
the wash of a light sea over broken rock, And
then then my heart seemed to stop. Close to the
point where the cliff dropped. Sheer, a woman of remarkable
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beauty was sitting, her face full of some distant dream.
I knew who this woman must be, Mabel Manderson. She
was at once everything that poets and painters have tried
to express with pen and brush. Yet this woman who
appeared to be devoid of evil and incapable of murder,
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this woman whose husband's death had made her the wealthiest
of widows, wh on her lips a faint yet unmistakable smile.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
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Speaker 5 (16:47):
Suspense, to continue my narration of the peculiar circumstances surrounding
the death of Sigsby Manderson, the last case to which I,
Philip Trent, applied myself. The sight of Missus Manderson at
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her sanctuary on the cliff had a most unsettling effect
on me. I returned to the house and nervously paced
the floor of the study for I don't know how long.
When the door opened and my name was spoken, I
stared stupidly.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
Mister Trent. I am Missus Manderson. You are, mister Trent.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I believe I believe yes, mister Trent.
Speaker 10 (17:36):
Please sit down, mister Trent. I would like to help
you in any way I can thank you.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
I'm sorry for inflicting myself upon you at this tragic time,
Missus Manderson. But I have just a few questions. Last night,
did your husband retire at the usual.
Speaker 10 (17:52):
Time, yes, at ten thirty, Then some time after eleven
I heard him move about in his room, which he
joined mine. I called and asked him if anything were
troubling him. He said no, he was just a bit
restless and would ask mister Marlow to take him for
a drive to relax his nerves.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
And did the drive with Marlowe bring the desired results?
Speaker 10 (18:11):
I thought so. At about midnight I heard my husband
return and asked if he felt better. He replied that
he did, and that he'd sent Marlow on an errand
to Southampton.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I see, thank you your uncle mister Copples mentioned that
mister Manderson behaved strangely towards you in the past month
or so.
Speaker 10 (18:30):
Well. He did rather. I put it down to the
pressure of business that.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
He had begun to tell on him, and was he
of a very jealous nature.
Speaker 10 (18:36):
He had no reason to be jealous.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
There were no quarrels, differences of any kind, not quarrels.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Really.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
My husband liked to spend money. I never learned to
My needs were modest. I've long feared that the large
amount of cash my husband always had on hand with
an invitation to burglars.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
And was he in the habit of carrying a pouch
full of diamonds in his pocket.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
He often bought expensive jewels for me, but they were
kept in a safe since they were not put to
use by me. Perhaps he had decided to dispose of them.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Of course, I know this must be a harrowing experience
for you, Missus Manderson, but you do want your husband's
murderer brought to justice.
Speaker 10 (19:16):
I will help in any way i can.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I didn't think I would learn anything by attending the inquest,
so while it was being held, I strolled to the
telegraph office. Yes, sir, I expected a telegram yesterday. I
wonder whether it has come in. What is the name?
Speaker 10 (19:40):
Please?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Trent?
Speaker 10 (19:41):
Philip Trent Trent does sound familiar?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Why?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Of course?
Speaker 10 (19:47):
A batch of telegrams was delivered to missus Manderson last night,
sympathy messages. You know, the poor thing. Yours went out
of the house along with the others.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
You're sure of that.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
Well, look here the delivery book. You can see signed
by the person who received it.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Thank you, thank you very much. The receipt or a
signature in a clear hand John Marlowe. I found myself
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at the cliff again, and each crashing wave was like
a hammer blow on my heart. I was certain of
the contents of the telegram. Only one thing was not clear,
and that was a motive. And each time the answer
tried to insinuate itself into my mind, I consciously pushed
it away. I could no longer look at the case impersonally.
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After the first sight of missus Manderson sitting on this
very rock while she gazed at the sea, I knew
that she could be motive enough, innocent or not for
any d good or bad.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
This came for you last night?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Why what?
Speaker 9 (20:57):
What?
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Why you in the habit of scougging up on people
five I I almost lost my footing.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
Be more careful, it's a long way down.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Well what you were waiting for? Surely you don't expect
me to thank you for beholding my telegram since last
night you weren't here.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
You didn't expect me to chase over the countryside looking
for you.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
All right, Uh, thank you?
Speaker 9 (21:20):
I imagine you'll be leaving Bishop's Bridge, Trent. The inquest
Dury returned a verdictive murder by persons unknown expector. Merch
believes the crime was committed by a crank.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
You're a veritable starhouse of information, Marlow, And now if
you'll excuse me. When Marlowe left me, I tore open
the telegrams response to your inquiry. John Marlowe, member of
Dramatic Society, excellent in roles calling for disguise and vocal impersonations. Ah,
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I knew what I had to do, and I approached
my task with the deepest pain and bloom.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
Mister Ted, I didn't realize you'd come in forgive my
playing the piano is my only release.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
No, please continue, I I've.
Speaker 10 (22:12):
Aren't you feeling well? Perhaps in rain?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
No? No, no, thank you, missus Manderson. I've I've written
the story of this case and addressed it to the
publisher of the record. Or here in this envelope contain
certain things which I have concluded about your husband's death. Oh,
things not suspected by any one else. Missus Manderson, I
am not free to suppress this evidence on a mere whim.
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I want the truth.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
Are you asking me if I perjured myself at the inquest?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Since I have a passion for truth, I do not
attend inquests. But you knew why your husband changed his
attitude towards you in a month or so preceding his death.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
What have you found out?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I want you to tell me all right.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
He knew that I was weary of life with him.
The constant party's business conference is scheming complicated plans for
amalgamations corporations, which went on constantly. I couldn't ask him
to pass the butter at dinner without getting the latest
market prices on that commodity. I refused to attend his dinner.
I wouldn't play hostess any longer at his dull parties.
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That is why his attitude changed.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
There was no talk of divorce none. Did you plan
to continue living with him?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Why?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Why do you ask me that I know that your
husband became contemptuous of you because of John Marlowe. There
you have the envelope. Send it to the record or
withhold it as you choose. I'm done with this. This
is my last case. I watched her trembling hands tear
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open the envelope and extract the story, the story that
told how Marlowe had shot Manderson at eleven o'clock, had
him personated them at midnight, but won the dead man's
shoes to cover up his own footprints, and had been
in such haste that he neglected to tie the laces
when he returned them to the feet of the murdered man.
I dared not guess how deeply Missus Manderson was involved
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in the plots besides being the motive for it. I
wanted to be done with the affairs and get as
far away as possible from the woman who now stood
so near to me.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
I can't send this off, mister Trent.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
I am sure you have good reason. The best you
are wrong impossible. I can prove that Marlowe masqueraded as
your husband.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
A lesson, please. My husband sent marlow off to see
a man who never existed in the package you dressed
in a mythical mister Harris, with my husband's wallet with
five thousand pounds and the pouch of diamonds. He intended
only to wound himself and then had mister Marlowe arrested
for theft and attempted murder.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Like you, My.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
Husband suspected there was something between Marlowe and b There
never was.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Missus Manderson.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
When marlow started to drive off, he heard the shot
and drove back. My husband was dead, a suicide. He
realized then what my husband had planned. He replaced the
worret and diamonds in the pockets, then bawled the shoes
for reasons. You guessed they were torn because Marlow's feet
were a little too large for them.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
But you said you had seen Manderson at midnight.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
I said I had heard his voice. Marlow's a good impersonator.
He was trying to protect himself and me.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Now at Missus Manderson, I I couldn't have been that
far from the solution.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
You were even further.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
Away then, my couples, Anderson was not a suicide what
I killed him.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
But this is too ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
I was out walking that night. I saw Marlow drive off.
Then I came upon Manderson just as he was about
to shoot himself. I tried to stop him. We struggled,
and during the struggle the gun went off accidentally.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
How could I have been so.
Speaker 10 (26:01):
I think I know why your talents must be better
suited to reporting than the detective business.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
My dear Missus Manderson, I couldn't agree with you more.
This eye vow shall be Trent's last case.
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Speaker 5 (02:01):
On the last case to which I, Philip Trent, applied
myself in the field of criminology and detection, occurred in
the spring of nineteen hundred and ten. I has acknowledged
that the intricacies of the crime were worthy of the
brain of Siggsby Manderson. This colossus among financial giants had
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manipulated power and wealth in every corner of the world.
He centralized industries of continental scope, smashed families and fortunes,
and along with each dollar he accumulated an enemy. When
Sigsby Manderson was murdered, the world lust nothing worth a
single tear the day of his death, Sir James Molloy,
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publisher of a London Record, asked me to cover the
case for his paper. I agreed and immediately took the
train to Bishopsbridge.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Ah, then you'll have friends.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Wait for an old man.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Why, mister Couples, by all this miraculars, how are you breathless?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Philip?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Breathless?
Speaker 8 (03:14):
They I expected you be down to Bishop's Bridge to
write about the murder.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Well, that's rather a colorless way of stating it, eh,
I should prefer to put it that I have come
down and the character of avenger of blood to hunt
down the guilty and vindicate the honor of society. Families
waited one of their private residences.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
Famous turned your head. This tragic affair will not blend
well with your lightheartedness.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Ah now, mister Couples, you have more than a bystander's
interest in the case. I have indeed come now you
you didn't.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Do the great man in Mabel Manderson is my niece,
and there are some things you will learn which may
prejudice you, and I wanted you to share them from
me so your good judgment would not be impaired by
gossip or malicious tongues.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Good. So you can walk to the Manderson place with me?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh, much too far to walk. I'll take you in
my motor car.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Oh no, Now you will go slowly, won't you?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Very slowly, you get in.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
I'll crank the engine.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Now, how about your niece?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
My niece had been married to Manderson.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
For five years. They got along all the world.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
Despite the difference in their ages. She was just eighteen
when they married, and he close to fiftieth. Several months ago,
for an all apparent.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Reason, he began to treat her miserably.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
He was surly, contemptuous, and sullen. Once she could bear
it no longer, she turned to me.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I offered to speak.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
To him, demand an explanation for his aunt rage.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Why didn't she speak to him herself?
Speaker 8 (05:02):
There is the most gentle and even tempered person. She
wanted to avoid a bitter.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Squabble, A rare woman. Indeed, I tried to see Manderson
for a week.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
When I finally did catch up with him, I was
doubly angry for his shabby treatment of his.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Wife and for avoiding me.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
And did you get in this satisfaction? Who?
Speaker 8 (05:19):
He refused to discuss the matter in the presence of witnesses.
I'm afraid I made a rather rash statement. I expressed
the view that men such.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
As he did not deserve to live. I wouldn't worry
about that, mister, Couples. That opinion seems to be universal.
The strange thing is why your niece married Manderson. Oh yeah,
here we are.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Would you mind opening the gates please?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
No, no, no, this will refine. I'd like to nose
around the grounds a bit, unless you want to drive in.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
No, no, no no, I'm staying in town. If you
should want me, I'm at the Hotel Royal h.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Thank you for the lift, Couples. I passed through the
gates and walked the path between tall walls of hedges.
A gap in this green wall took me to a
gravel track that led to the small gardener's cottage. Someone
was poking about, as though looking for something. My approach
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startled the fellow. This is private property. What are you
doing here? My name is Trent and you John Marlow, Oh, yes,
secretary to mister Manderson. I believe you'll. You seem to
have lost something, flus. I can help you.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Look.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
No, I I was just hoping I could find something here,
something that the murderer may have dropped. This is where
Manderson's body was found.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Ah, and have you found anything? No, I really.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Didn't expect to.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I I've just.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Been so sorry, upset, bereaved, devastated by the master's death. Frankly, no,
I'm limpets all. I've been up all night driving, haven't
had any sleep.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
For you? You should you should do your driving during
the day.
Speaker 9 (07:05):
Mister Manderson had sent me on an urge in errand
to Southampton just before he was killed.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Oh, then you went around when the deed was done.
Speaker 9 (07:12):
I have accounted for myself to inspect a merch.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
But now that your employment here has come to an
abrupt end, do you plan on leaving Bishop's Bridge?
Speaker 9 (07:21):
And Missus Manderson has asked me to stay to clear
up various papers and loose ends more. Well, then I
shall see you about you shall mister Trent. I would
like to offer a suggestion snoop around if you must,
but leave Missus Manderson alone.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I have already heard that she is the most fragile creature.
But have no worries mister Marlowe. I am gentle as
a bird. When Marlowe left me, I pattered about the
uncut grass, which still showed where the body had lain.
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And I started towards these there was a man standing
in the open French doors of the study.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
White Trent come in, Come in.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Ah me twas ever that I did think for once
I was ahead of Scotland Yard. And now here again
is the largest officer in the entire force already filling
that prime position.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
How are you merch earning my wages? Trent A.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Then you've arrested the bloke, but done the old fellow
in good work?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You know I didn't say that it'll take more than
you or me to put the cuffs on anyone in
this case?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Or come now, what about the butler and the upstairs,
made the cook, the gardener? Why the place must be
teeming with likely super.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The trouble Mendersen was not what I'd call a lovable chip.
Too many suspects were some bloke Groove come here from
Tanganyikol Timberg too, pulled the trigger and then gone home,
easy if you please.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
The gun hasn't been found.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
No, I have the bullet here, the thirty two.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Such a small bullet to have ruined such a large brain.
Any powder burn nun.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The gun was fired from a distance of about five feet.
The medical examiner has fixed the time of death at
about midnight. Where's the body? A Deckerman's mortually in towns.
I have a photographer here taken where the body was found.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Let me see m distress cops i've ever seen except
for the shoes.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
The shoes, while they're very expensive.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
And practically new, I should like to see them if
they're about.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Everything mister Manderson was wearing when he was killed has
been returned to his room.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I suppose to be all right if I went up
and sniffed around.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Of course, I'll lead the way I've gone over everything funnily,
I don't know why you're so interested in the shoes match.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Don't you think it rather strange that Manderson was dressed
meticulously when he was shut, hair parted neatly, tie in place,
waistecot completely buttoned. Yet the laces of the shoes but untied.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Or perhaps his feet bothered him. Now I have terrible pain.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Could robbery have come into it? You think anything missing
from Manderson's pockets or from the house.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh at refector. Manderson's wallet was overstuffed with about five thousand.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Pounds, more than pocket money even for a millionaire.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
There was also a pouch of valuable uncut diamonds in
one of his pockets. No robbery is certainly out. Ah,
this is.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Mendersson's room here and cut diamonds there as anyone guessed
at their value about.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Ten thousand pounds, Well, good heavens, don't you think diamonds
are worth that much?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Is that? I'm more impressed by the array of shoes
in this wardrobe. Why they there must be fifty pairs
if there's one, Aha, this is what I want?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Oh, how could you tell that those are the shoe
whose Mendersson war last night?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Will look here, there's a tear near the tank wheth.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I said, they must have been a bit tight for him.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Now why would he, with fifty pairs to choose from,
select the one pair that pinched? You know how it is.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I've become attached to an old bathroobe much too tight
for me that I favorite over a new one that
the wife gave me on my birthday.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
God, very odd match. I wondered if we could have
a look at Marlowe's room.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Now, certainly it's just down the hall, but her Marlowe's
in the clear. He left eleven last night, an hour
before Menderson was killed. He got to the Bedford Hotel
in Southampton at six thirty. Couldn't possibly have made the
drive in less than seven and a half hours.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
What was the errand Manderson sent him on?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
He was to meet mister Harris and give him a package,
some big secret business affair of Mendersin's.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
I met to and Marlowe delivered the package and returned
to Bishop's Bridge.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
He returned without making the delivery. Harris didn't appear.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
You might at least not before including Oh, I'm sorry, Marlowe.
I thought the room was unoccupied.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Fence, mister Marlowe, Trent here is working on the case.
You might call this visit of visual please business. I've
told you all I can.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
You don't mind. I'd like to nap at Marlow. When
you first went to work for Manerson, did he require
a graduate of Oxford? All he wanted was a capable secretary.
But you were at Oxford. I was marvelous placed. Oxford
gave us a great school and a fine style of shoe.
By the way, at Marlow, what size shoe do you wear? Inspector.
Speaker 9 (12:33):
If you don't remove this, gentleman, I shall report this
to the authority.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Oh, come off it, mister Marlowe. Let's indulge mister trenton
a question or two.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
I wear size ten scene.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Thank you, Thank you at marlow Have you any idea
what was in that package for mister Harris?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
No?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Where is it now?
Speaker 9 (12:53):
A messenger came for it this morning.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
You have any idea who this mister Harris may be?
Have you ever met him?
Speaker 8 (12:59):
No?
Speaker 9 (13:00):
Mister Madison had many private business arrangements about which I
was kept in the dark. I was his secretary, not
a business partner.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Isn't it rather odd that an American would hire an
English secretary? Not at all?
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Maybe missus Manderson is English. That is why mister Madison
lived in England a good part of the time. He
wanted his wife to feel at home among her own people.
And I assume you did your part in that regard.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
I beg your pardoner, I beg yours. Marlowe. Well, take
your nap and pleasant dreams. Inspector Merch went off to
complete arrangements for the inquest, leaving me alone in this
marble mausoleum of the house. To wait for Missus Manderson.
I then sent a telegram to Oxford University and requested
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an immediate reply to my inquiries about John Marler's undergraduate activities.
Then I wrote my first dispatch for the London Record,
setting forth everything I knew, and keeping to myself those
suspicions which I hope would soon be confirmed. Since Missus
Manderson didn't appear, I decided to have another look at
the gardener's cottage, but a compelling thought turned me instead
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towards the sound of the sea. Standing at the edge
of the cliff, I watched the beautiful movements of water,
the wash of a light sea over broken rock, And
then then my heart seemed to stop. Close to the
point where the cliff dropped. Sheer, a woman of remarkable
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beauty was sitting, her face full of some distant dream.
I knew who this woman must be, Mabel Manderson. She
was at once everything that poets and painters have tried
to express with pen and brush. Yet this woman who
appeared to be devoid of evil and incapable of murder,
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this woman whose husband's death had made her the wealthiest
of widows, wh on her lips a faint yet unmistakable smile.
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Speaker 5 (16:47):
Suspense, to continue my narration of the peculiar circumstances surrounding
the death of Sigsby Manderson, the last case to which I,
Philip Trent, applied myself. The sight of Missus Manderson at
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her sanctuary on the cliff had a most unsettling effect
on me. I returned to the house and nervously paced
the floor of the study for I don't know how long.
When the door opened and my name was spoken, I
stared stupidly.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
Mister Trent. I am Missus Manderson. You are, mister Trent.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I believe I believe yes, mister Trent.
Speaker 10 (17:36):
Please sit down, mister Trent. I would like to help
you in any way I can thank you.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
I'm sorry for inflicting myself upon you at this tragic time,
Missus Manderson. But I have just a few questions. Last night,
did your husband retire at the usual.
Speaker 10 (17:52):
Time, yes, at ten thirty, Then some time after eleven
I heard him move about in his room, which he
joined mine. I called and asked him if anything were
troubling him. He said no, he was just a bit
restless and would ask mister Marlow to take him for
a drive to relax his nerves.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
And did the drive with Marlowe bring the desired results?
Speaker 10 (18:11):
I thought so. At about midnight I heard my husband
return and asked if he felt better. He replied that
he did, and that he'd sent Marlow on an errand
to Southampton.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I see, thank you your uncle mister Copples mentioned that
mister Manderson behaved strangely towards you in the past month
or so.
Speaker 10 (18:30):
Well. He did rather. I put it down to the
pressure of business that.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
He had begun to tell on him, and was he
of a very jealous nature.
Speaker 10 (18:36):
He had no reason to be jealous.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
There were no quarrels, differences of any kind, not quarrels.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Really.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
My husband liked to spend money. I never learned to
My needs were modest. I've long feared that the large
amount of cash my husband always had on hand with
an invitation to burglars.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
And was he in the habit of carrying a pouch
full of diamonds in his pocket.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
He often bought expensive jewels for me, but they were
kept in a safe since they were not put to
use by me. Perhaps he had decided to dispose of them.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Of course, I know this must be a harrowing experience
for you, Missus Manderson, but you do want your husband's
murderer brought to justice.
Speaker 10 (19:16):
I will help in any way i can.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I didn't think I would learn anything by attending the inquest,
so while it was being held, I strolled to the
telegraph office. Yes, sir, I expected a telegram yesterday. I
wonder whether it has come in. What is the name?
Speaker 10 (19:40):
Please?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Trent?
Speaker 10 (19:41):
Philip Trent Trent does sound familiar?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Why?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Of course?
Speaker 10 (19:47):
A batch of telegrams was delivered to missus Manderson last night,
sympathy messages. You know, the poor thing. Yours went out
of the house along with the others.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
You're sure of that.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
Well, look here the delivery book. You can see signed
by the person who received it.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Thank you, thank you very much. The receipt or a
signature in a clear hand John Marlowe. I found myself
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at the cliff again, and each crashing wave was like
a hammer blow on my heart. I was certain of
the contents of the telegram. Only one thing was not clear,
and that was a motive. And each time the answer
tried to insinuate itself into my mind, I consciously pushed
it away. I could no longer look at the case impersonally.
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After the first sight of missus Manderson sitting on this
very rock while she gazed at the sea, I knew
that she could be motive enough, innocent or not for
any d good or bad.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
This came for you last night?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Why what?
Speaker 9 (20:57):
What?
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Why you in the habit of scougging up on people
five I I almost lost my footing.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
Be more careful, it's a long way down.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Well what you were waiting for? Surely you don't expect
me to thank you for beholding my telegram since last
night you weren't here.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
You didn't expect me to chase over the countryside looking
for you.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
All right, Uh, thank you?
Speaker 9 (21:20):
I imagine you'll be leaving Bishop's Bridge, Trent. The inquest
Dury returned a verdictive murder by persons unknown expector. Merch
believes the crime was committed by a crank.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
You're a veritable starhouse of information, Marlow, And now if
you'll excuse me. When Marlowe left me, I tore open
the telegrams response to your inquiry. John Marlowe, member of
Dramatic Society, excellent in roles calling for disguise and vocal impersonations. Ah,
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I knew what I had to do, and I approached
my task with the deepest pain and bloom.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
Mister Ted, I didn't realize you'd come in forgive my
playing the piano is my only release.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
No, please continue, I I've.
Speaker 10 (22:12):
Aren't you feeling well? Perhaps in rain?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
No? No, no, thank you, missus Manderson. I've I've written
the story of this case and addressed it to the
publisher of the record. Or here in this envelope contain
certain things which I have concluded about your husband's death. Oh,
things not suspected by any one else. Missus Manderson, I
am not free to suppress this evidence on a mere whim.
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I want the truth.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
Are you asking me if I perjured myself at the inquest?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Since I have a passion for truth, I do not
attend inquests. But you knew why your husband changed his
attitude towards you in a month or so preceding his death.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
What have you found out?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I want you to tell me all right.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
He knew that I was weary of life with him.
The constant party's business conference is scheming complicated plans for
amalgamations corporations, which went on constantly. I couldn't ask him
to pass the butter at dinner without getting the latest
market prices on that commodity. I refused to attend his dinner.
I wouldn't play hostess any longer at his dull parties.
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That is why his attitude changed.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
There was no talk of divorce none. Did you plan
to continue living with him?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Why?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Why do you ask me that I know that your
husband became contemptuous of you because of John Marlowe. There
you have the envelope. Send it to the record or
withhold it as you choose. I'm done with this. This
is my last case. I watched her trembling hands tear
(23:53):
open the envelope and extract the story, the story that
told how Marlowe had shot Manderson at eleven o'clock, had
him personated them at midnight, but won the dead man's
shoes to cover up his own footprints, and had been
in such haste that he neglected to tie the laces
when he returned them to the feet of the murdered man.
I dared not guess how deeply Missus Manderson was involved
(24:14):
in the plots besides being the motive for it. I
wanted to be done with the affairs and get as
far away as possible from the woman who now stood
so near to me.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
I can't send this off, mister Trent.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
I am sure you have good reason. The best you
are wrong impossible. I can prove that Marlowe masqueraded as
your husband.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
A lesson, please. My husband sent marlow off to see
a man who never existed in the package you dressed
in a mythical mister Harris, with my husband's wallet with
five thousand pounds and the pouch of diamonds. He intended
only to wound himself and then had mister Marlowe arrested
for theft and attempted murder.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Like you, My.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
Husband suspected there was something between Marlowe and b There
never was.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Missus Manderson.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
When marlow started to drive off, he heard the shot
and drove back. My husband was dead, a suicide. He
realized then what my husband had planned. He replaced the
worret and diamonds in the pockets, then bawled the shoes
for reasons. You guessed they were torn because Marlow's feet
were a little too large for them.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
But you said you had seen Manderson at midnight.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
I said I had heard his voice. Marlow's a good impersonator.
He was trying to protect himself and me.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Now at Missus Manderson, I I couldn't have been that
far from the solution.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
You were even further.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
Away then, my couples, Anderson was not a suicide what
I killed him.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
But this is too ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
I was out walking that night. I saw Marlow drive off.
Then I came upon Manderson just as he was about
to shoot himself. I tried to stop him. We struggled,
and during the struggle the gun went off accidentally.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
How could I have been so.
Speaker 10 (26:01):
I think I know why your talents must be better
suited to reporting than the detective business.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
My dear Missus Manderson, I couldn't agree with you more.
This eye vow shall be Trent's last case.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
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Speaker 3 (27:50):
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